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Bayer Leverkusen have suffered a setback in their €120m Bayern-Munich style “Campus Project”. One of the Bundesliga’s “company clubs” wishes to emulate Bayern’s famous Säbener Straße developmental campus by building a facility featuring 12 football pitches in the small Westphalian town of Monheim. On Wednesday, the town’s city council rejected Leverkusen’s construction proposal.
Monheim’s city council arrived at the decision during a Wednesday constituent meeting, primarily citing the concerns of “traffic congestion” and well as “ecological disruption“. The small town of approximately 43,000 inhabitants would obviously look very different…